Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you ever so much for bringing me round , it 's very nice of you . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 3 | Abruptly Clare said to David , ‘ Thank you for bringing me back . |
| 4 | ‘ Bless you for helping me out with the Watsons . |
| 5 | I just want to say a big THANK YOU to the organisers and correspondents for keeping me up to date with the progress of THE WHITES this season . |
| 6 | They usually started out about now , and after catching me up went forward an agreed distance to make camp . |
| 7 | I thought this was very unfair and erm , but then luckily really because erm I do n't think I would have let the job would have been difficult even if er I 'd had my wife as , for transporting me around to these various people . |
| 8 | You can keep your reason for hunting me down to yourself . ’ |
| 9 | Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance . |
| 10 | I had a mum as a single parent and two grandparents and they did an excellent job of bringing me up ! |
| 11 | Mr Broadhurst was by now in the habit of picking me up from Varndean Grammar on Wednesday afternoons , accompanying me to Pool Valley , and then on home by bus . |
| 12 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 13 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean — what 's the point of dragging me back here , to my own home ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My last defeat was in New York against Glenwood Brown in 1989 but , instead of putting me off going to a guy 's home town , it seemed to encourage me , ’ said Boucher . |
| 16 | Montana said : ‘ Steve and the team are playing well so they are not going to take a chance of throwing me in unless they have to . ’ |
| 17 | Du n no , that wife of fucking me up . |
| 18 | ‘ I could give you more , but you might worry about paying me back . ’ |
| 19 | And , knowing her friend 's financial situation , ‘ Do n't you dare talk about paying me back . |
| 20 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 21 | ‘ At no stage , though , did he look like knocking me out , like most of his opponents , ’ said Jacobs . |
| 22 | Now he 'll come up with all sorts of bright ideas like tying me up or pumping me full of tranquillizers for my own safety . |
| 23 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Gresty , whose business has been broken into several times , said : ‘ I am extremely grateful to the Army for getting me out of a very sticky situation . ’ |
| 25 | Thanks to GAv for sorting me out ! ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've been lumbered with running me back , ’ Ashley said crisply , as they turned on to the road . |
| 27 | ‘ And you did very successfully , until your mother saddled you with taking me back to my hotel . ’ |
| 28 | Thank you so much for letting me in and everything . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps she thinks I hate her for giving me up . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm going to be floating down river on this thing later this afternoon , so you do n't need to have any worries about letting me up on deck . ’ |